Hugh Masekela: South African music losing steam, needs new direction after apartheid

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The euphoria of freedom has faded a bit after 17 years, but few South Africans would trade today's freedoms for the apartheid years. Even so, freedom did bring casualties. And 1994, in a way, was the day the music died. Jazz clubs suffered from the influx of rural migrants and foreign immigrants, crammed into tiny apartments by greedy landlords in the cheaper areas where jazz clubs tended to situate. Jazz aficionados found that freedom gave them other options, including moving out of all-black neighborhoods into the middle-class white neighborhoods where they were now allowed to live. Click here for entire story from the Christian Science Monitor.

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Hugh Masekela performs at Yoshi's-Oakland June 23-24, 2011. Click here for details. 

Trumpeter Don Cherry - "Hear & Now"

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Don Cherry was one of the most individual and idiosyncratic voices in contemporary jazz and world music, and also one of the most significant figures of his era. In an age of technically fearsome trumpet players, Cherry preferred to emphasise expression and musical communication over speed and technical prowess, and evolved an utterly distinctive sound and style in the process.

He began playing trumpet in high school in Los Angeles, where he was brought up, but made his earliest public appearances as a pianist in rhythm and blues bands. He adopted a small B-flat pocket trumpet made in Pakistan as his preferred instrument, and it became his trademark, although he went on to play a wide range of ethnic instruments, notably the doussn'gouni, a hunter's guitar from Mali, which he used extensively in performance. Read complete bio from jazzhouse.org.

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Guitarist John McLaughlin -- "Follow Your Heart"

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John McLaughlin, is an English jazz and jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On The Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influences. His guitar playing includes a range of styles and genres, including jazz, Indian classical music, fusion, and Western classical music, and has influenced many other guitarists. He has also incorporated flamenco music in some of his acoustic recordings. The Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called John McLaughlin "one of the greatest and one of the important musicians of our times". In 2010, Guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive".^[1] In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".<sup>[2]

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Coltrane's house where he wrote "A Love Supreme" listed among the most endangered in U.S.

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It was where one of the all-time greatest jazz albums was recorded. Now, the Coltrane house on Long Island is among the nation’s 11 most endangered historic places. Jazz musician John Coltrane‘s home in Dix Hills, where he wrote “A Love Supreme” in an upstairs bedroom, has deteriorated due to a lack of funds, the National Trust for Historic Preservation said. Coltrane’s son, Ravi, said his father went into the bedroom and was there for several days writing the famous masterwork. Read complete story from cbs newyork.

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Featuring Facebook friend, trumpeter Freddie Jacobs

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Fred Jacobs, jazz trumpeter/composer, “sounds as bright and assured as Freddie Hubbard or Woody Shaw, but with verve and a smooth, fluent originality," said Robert Spencer in All About Jazz.
Jacobs has toured with some legendary jazz bands -- Eddie Palmieri, Jimmy McGriff, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, and the Sam Jones/Tom Harrell band, performing at the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the Village Vanguard – and has taken his own band into Birdland, Sweet Basil, Visiones, and Trumpets. Also currently touring with Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers. Read complete bio and listen to his music at reverbnation.com.

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